Farmer&#39;s land leveler



June 5, 1928. 1,671,999

- G. H. RUHL FARMER s LAND LEVELER Filed March 17, 1927 @I nl, f1 Anw Patented June 5, 1928..

UNITED STATES PATEN oFFIcaf Go'r'rLIEB H. RUHL, or FORT MORGAN, COLORADO.

FARMERS LANDk LEVELER.

Application led March 17, `1927. Serial No. 175,987.

faced fields will produce more crops thanr bumpy, uneven soil, especially irrigated land.

Seed planted in leveled ground can be planted at just theright depth for proper growth, the crop then being full, thick and uniform.

With leveled land, the distribution of water is simple, easy and even, There are no high and dry knolls and no low and soggy sloughs, where part of the crop is dried out and the other part saturated.v

In addition, a cultivator run over leveled ground breaks the soil evenly over the entire field, thus making it easier to drive straight rows. i

Devices used heretofore, for the above purposes, have been found to be complicated, expensive and inefficient.

vIt is therefore an object of this invention to overcome the foregoing disadvantagesby providing a leveling device that contains few and simple parts, can be manufactured at a low cost and which performs its functions in a positive manner, thus saving a great amount of heretofore needlessly wasted energy on the part of the operator. These several major objects, together with numerous other objects, which will become apparent as the description progresses, are accomplished by the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming an important component of this disclosure, and which Figure 1 isa general perspective view showing the device in use.

Figure 2 is a partial sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Figure 3. f

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the device. In the drawing, the numeral 5 designates a pair of spaced, parallel runners having their forward edges curved to present smooth running surfaces.

Intermediate the runners and connected to the inner sides of the same, by brackets 6,

is a pair of spaced, transverse, rectangular leveling plates 7 provided with notches in their upper edges in which is secured longitudinal supports 8.

.The supports 8 are connected by kcrosspieces 9 and 10, from the latter, of which -rises a seat 11.

Fixed on one of the supports 8 just in advance of the cross-piece 10, is an arcuate rack 12 engaged by a pawl 13 connected by a rod 14 to a handle 15 pivoted to a lever 1 6,

rotatably mounted, at 17, to the rack.

Pivoted to the lower end of the lever 16 is 'a rod '18 similarly connected, aty 19, to a 65 crank 20 fixed on an axle 21 journalled in j brackets 22 securedon the rear ends of the supports 8, the axle having offset 23 at its ends, carrying wheels 24.

- Thus, during normal operation, the lever portions 16 will be in its backward position so'that the wheels 24 will be clear of the ground.

By drawing the device over thel soil, las shown in Figure 1, the plates 7 will ride along the land, scraping the same and mak- 76 i ing it even and substantiallylevel.

If the ground should be rather soggy and the going is hard, by moving the lever 16` forward, the wheels 24 will engage the earth, raising the rear end lof the device, making 80 the same easier to be drawn. l

. It will thus be noted that a levelingy device has been disclosed comprised of relatively few and simple elements,which can be manufactured cheaply and which is posivtive and etiicient in its operation.A

While the foregoing is descriptive of the preferred embodiment of my invention, obviously, minor changes in construction, arrangement, sizes and proportions may be y made without departing from the spirit or scopevof the claims hereto appended.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to` secure by Letters Patent, 'is:`- i

A land leveling device comprising a pair of runners arranged in parallel, transverse scraper plates fixed to extend between said `runners adjacent their ends and reaching thereabove, rails carried on the upper edges yof said scraper plates to extend at the rear,

a shaft-,journalled in the extending ends of said rails, said shaft having cranks at its heldin a raised. or lowered position relative ends arranged in parallel, Wheels mounted to said runners, and a seat carried on the rotatably on said cranks, a lever Xed on front portions of said rails', l 10 said shaft, a hand lever on the front end of In Witness whereof I have afxed my one of said rails, a link connecting said signature.

levers, means for retaining said hand lever in adjustment whereby said Wheels may be GOTTLIEB HQ 

